Warning: Big spoilers for both the original and new versions of Pet Sematary ahead!
After watching the trailer for the Pet Sematary reboot a few months back, we were shocked to discover that the studio decided to give away a major twist that explains both of the horror flicks' chilling taglines: "Sometimes dead is better" and "They don't come back the same."
In this new adaptation of Stephen King's 1983 novel, directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer decided to change a major component of the original story. This time around, the young son of the Creed family isn't the one who dies - it's his older sister.
To give you some background, the film follows Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who moves into a sprawling rural home with his wife, Rachel (Amy Seimetz), and their two young children, 8-year-old Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and toddler Gage (twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie). Not long after they arrive,...
After watching the trailer for the Pet Sematary reboot a few months back, we were shocked to discover that the studio decided to give away a major twist that explains both of the horror flicks' chilling taglines: "Sometimes dead is better" and "They don't come back the same."
In this new adaptation of Stephen King's 1983 novel, directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer decided to change a major component of the original story. This time around, the young son of the Creed family isn't the one who dies - it's his older sister.
To give you some background, the film follows Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who moves into a sprawling rural home with his wife, Rachel (Amy Seimetz), and their two young children, 8-year-old Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and toddler Gage (twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie). Not long after they arrive,...
- 4/15/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
As an entertainment journalist, there are certain movie and TV series titles that make my job harder than others. Jordan Peele's recently released Us, for example. Netflix's You is another one. Despite being short and simple, it makes writing headlines a little bit of a pain. But the latest contender is annoying for a reason that should become immediately clear as soon as you lay eyes on it: Pet Sematary. Why, oh why, is it spelled like that?!
The 2019 reboot of Stephen King's classic, terrifying story - which was first published in 1983 and adapted for the big screen in 1989 - is now in theaters. Which means that it's now all over social media, in giant headlines on ads in the city where I live, and plastered all over freaky commercials that will keep me awake for a week straight (at least). But in addition to being creeped...
The 2019 reboot of Stephen King's classic, terrifying story - which was first published in 1983 and adapted for the big screen in 1989 - is now in theaters. Which means that it's now all over social media, in giant headlines on ads in the city where I live, and plastered all over freaky commercials that will keep me awake for a week straight (at least). But in addition to being creeped...
- 4/14/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Stars: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Obssa Ahmed | Written by Jeff Buhler, Matt Greenberg | Directed by Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer
Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and their two children, Gage and Ellie, move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie ‘Pet Sematary’ located nearby. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.
Pet Sematary, directed by duo Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, is a reimagining of the chilling Stephen King novel and cult classic 1989 film of the same name directed by Mary Lambert. The 2019 remake is absolutely chilling and delightfully eerie. It makes you wait for the seismic terrors, but the payoff is horrifically unsettling with a truly...
Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and their two children, Gage and Ellie, move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie ‘Pet Sematary’ located nearby. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.
Pet Sematary, directed by duo Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, is a reimagining of the chilling Stephen King novel and cult classic 1989 film of the same name directed by Mary Lambert. The 2019 remake is absolutely chilling and delightfully eerie. It makes you wait for the seismic terrors, but the payoff is horrifically unsettling with a truly...
- 4/10/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
The hottest trend in horror right now is Stephen King, and specifically, remakes of some of his seminal works. Most recently, It was a box office smash, which got the ball rolling. Now, we have a new Pet Sematary on our hands. A more efficient updating of the original film, it also makes enough changes to the story that we’re not just watching the exact same narrative play out over again. Bleak, creepy, and effective enough to recommend, it’s also not nearly as good as the early buzz out of SXSW this year suggested. It’s a decent fright flick but that’s about it. The movie is, of course, a remake of the adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. The Creed family is looking for a slower paced life as they relocate to a small town in rural Maine from their busy Boston life.
- 4/5/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
After a batch of unnerving photos from the new Pet Sematary remake were released a while back, we have the latest (and final) trailer for the horror film to obsess over. Directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer introduce us to the members of the Creed family, who move into a new home that just so happens to be located next to a small woodland cemetery for pets. What they don't realize - at least not at first - is that the land allows the creatures buried there to come back from the dead. When tragedy strikes, the family pushes the powers of the cemetery to the extreme.
Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz star as Louis and Rachel Creed, who are parents to young Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and Gage (twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie). John Lithgow is also on board as their kinda-creepy, kinda-wise next door neighbor, Jud Crandall, who...
Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz star as Louis and Rachel Creed, who are parents to young Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and Gage (twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie). John Lithgow is also on board as their kinda-creepy, kinda-wise next door neighbor, Jud Crandall, who...
- 4/5/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
When Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) move from the hustle of Boston to the rural quiet of Ludlow, Maine they expect their lives to slow down so they can finally spend some quality time with their children, nine-year-old Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and two-year-old Gage (Lucas & Hugo Lavoie). However, the new house in the woods comes with an extra thirty acres of mysterious forest in which a sinister ancient power lurks. When tragedy befalls the family, a father's grief awakens a malevolent entity that won't be satisfied until it consumes them all. One of Stephen King’s darkest and most terrifying stories gets a facelift in Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s new adaptation of the 1983 novel, Pet Sematary. The story was first...
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- 4/4/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Obssa Ahmed | Written by Jeff Buhler, Matt Greenberg | Directed by Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer
Mary Lambert’s 1989 film adaptation was a decent stab at Stephen King’s 1983 novel. It was fairly faithful and had a pleasing sense of the surreal – the latter mostly thanks to some ingenious casting (the sickly sister character was played by an emaciated male actor) and clever editing (it’s amazing how you can make a three-year-old look so evil just by juxtaposing scowls and giggles). The 2019 version, co-directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, is a more rampant reimagining of the source material. Slower and more sombre than your common or garden Conjuring fare, but rather cheesy compared with some of the modern horror classics with which we’ve been recently blessed, it has some great moments but doesn’t do quite enough to...
Mary Lambert’s 1989 film adaptation was a decent stab at Stephen King’s 1983 novel. It was fairly faithful and had a pleasing sense of the surreal – the latter mostly thanks to some ingenious casting (the sickly sister character was played by an emaciated male actor) and clever editing (it’s amazing how you can make a three-year-old look so evil just by juxtaposing scowls and giggles). The 2019 version, co-directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, is a more rampant reimagining of the source material. Slower and more sombre than your common or garden Conjuring fare, but rather cheesy compared with some of the modern horror classics with which we’ve been recently blessed, it has some great moments but doesn’t do quite enough to...
- 4/4/2019
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
"If you cheat death, there's a price to be paid." Paramount has released a third & final trailer for their new take on Stephen King's Pet Sematary, opening in theaters everywhere this week. This new adaptation sticks close to the story in King's book, about a family that moves to a rural home where they discover a "Pet Sematary" nearby. After the family cat is killed, they bury it in the Pet Sematary and then weird things start to happen, leading to another tragedy. We all know what happens, it's the creepiness that pervades. Jason Clarke & Amy Seimetz star, along with John Lithgow, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Hugo Lavoie, Obssa Ahmed, and Jeté Laurence. The reviews of this have been great so far (see Chris Evangelista's take), with plenty of praise for the terrifying adaptation of the tragic story of the Creed family. In theaters this weekend. Third & final trailer...
- 4/1/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Pet Sematary remake brings scares, a terrifying cat, and surprises if you have read the Stephen King book or seen the original movie.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
“Sometimes dead is better” in Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s new take on Stephen King’s cautionary fable Pet Sematary, a gothic, glossy remake which goes hard on the horror. For a time ‘remake’ was a dirty word in genre circles but after the storming success of It in 2017, digging up back catalog King and bringing it back from the dead is all the rage
Would Pet Sematary have been better left to rest in peace? Not exactly. But sadly, many of those new spins in Kolsch and Widmeyer’s take are the parts that don't work as well as they should. On the plus side, the cat is great.
Essentially a "The Monkey’s Paw" story...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
“Sometimes dead is better” in Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s new take on Stephen King’s cautionary fable Pet Sematary, a gothic, glossy remake which goes hard on the horror. For a time ‘remake’ was a dirty word in genre circles but after the storming success of It in 2017, digging up back catalog King and bringing it back from the dead is all the rage
Would Pet Sematary have been better left to rest in peace? Not exactly. But sadly, many of those new spins in Kolsch and Widmeyer’s take are the parts that don't work as well as they should. On the plus side, the cat is great.
Essentially a "The Monkey’s Paw" story...
- 4/1/2019
- Den of Geek
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
Pet Sematary opens in theaters April 5.
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Pet Sematary opens in theaters April 5.
Enter for your chance to win two free passes to the St. Louis advance screening of Pet Sematary. The theatrical sneak preview will be on April 3 at 7pm.
Answer the following: What is your favorite Stephen King novel?
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- 3/28/2019
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Thirty years after its first cinematic outing in a film directed by Mary Lambert and scripted by the author himself, Stephen King’s seminal horror novel Pet Sematary gets a second adaptation, this time courtesy of co-directors Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch. Starring Jason Clarke, John Lithgow and Jeté Laurence, the new film offers a brilliantly unsettling, terror inducing and thoroughly engaging narrative which, admirably, manages to stick closely to the original premise of one of King’s scariest and most popular stories to date.
After years of working in a busy emergency ward at a Boston city hospital, Dr. Louis Creed (Clarke) can’t wait to start a new life and job in rural Maine where he and his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and Gage (Hugo Lavoie) have relocated. Things start to go bump in the night when a gravely injured...
After years of working in a busy emergency ward at a Boston city hospital, Dr. Louis Creed (Clarke) can’t wait to start a new life and job in rural Maine where he and his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and Gage (Hugo Lavoie) have relocated. Things start to go bump in the night when a gravely injured...
- 3/22/2019
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ahead of tonight’s World Premiere at the ongoing SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, Paramount Pictures has sent Bloody Disgusting a massive gallery of new images from Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch‘s Pet Sematary. Twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie play Gage Creed, with Jeté Laurence as Ellie Creed. Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz are our new Louis and Rachel Creed, with John Lithgow as Jud Crandall. Obssa Ahmed is playing Victor Pascow, […]...
- 3/16/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
As the year 2019 continues to just fly by, the SXSW Film Festival is already right around the corner, kicking off on Friday in Austin, Texas. Not only does SXSW boast several impressive studio horror premieres this year, both opening and closing the festival, but it also features a Murderers' Row of talent in their Midnighters slate as well. This writer will once again be on site at the fest representing Daily Dead, and while I am really excited about everything on my docket over the next few weeks, here are 13 things happening at SXSW 2019 that have me especially amped to check out throughout all the film-related festivities.
Us (Director/Screenwriter: Jordan Peele)
I mean, it’s a new horror movie from Jordan Peele featuring a stellar cast oozing with raw talent. What more could I possibly need?
Festival Synopsis: An original nightmare from Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (Get Out), starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke,...
Us (Director/Screenwriter: Jordan Peele)
I mean, it’s a new horror movie from Jordan Peele featuring a stellar cast oozing with raw talent. What more could I possibly need?
Festival Synopsis: An original nightmare from Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (Get Out), starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke,...
- 3/5/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Pet Sematary opens in theatres on April 5, 2019 and Paramount Pictures has released a brand new poster and trailer for the upcoming horror film.
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
The original film, directed by Mary Lambert, was super creepy and written by King, featured Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. Andrew Hubatsek was cast for Zelda’s role.
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
The original film, directed by Mary Lambert, was super creepy and written by King, featured Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed, Denise Crosby as Rachel Creed, Blaze Berdahl as Ellie Creed, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed, and Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. Andrew Hubatsek was cast for Zelda’s role.
- 2/7/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"It's not some campfire story... They're warnings. The local tribes carved them before they fled... They fear that place." Paramount has debuted a second trailer for their new take on Stephen King's Pet Sematary, which was already adapted once before in 1989. The first teaser trailer arrived last October, and this new one is even better - watch out. This new adaptation sticks close to the story in the book, about a family that moves to a rural home where they discover a "Pet Sematary" nearby. After the family cat is killed, they bury it in the Pet Sematary and then very weird things start to happen. Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz star, with John Lithgow, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Hugo Lavoie, Jeté Laurence, and Obssa Ahmed. This looks seriously creepy as all hell, an impressive update with some very chilling thrills as seen in this trailer. Here's the second official...
- 2/7/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
John Lithgow takes over the role of Jud Crandall in next year’s Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch-directed Pet Sematary, the character of course played in the original adaptation by the late Fred Gwynne. Via Fandango, we’ve got a new image of the new Jud. Find it below. Twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie play Gage Creed, with Jeté Laurence taking on the role […]...
- 12/27/2018
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Paramount Pictures have released first trailer and poster for the upcoming cinematic remake of Stephen King’s 1983 novel Pet Sematary. Directed by Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch (the duo behind the fantastic Starry Eyes), the film stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence, Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie.
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
Pet Sematary currently has a release date of April 4th 2019.
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
Pet Sematary currently has a release date of April 4th 2019.
- 10/11/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
"It was a myth... Kids used to dare each other to go into the woods at night." Paramount has unveiled the first trailer for their new take on Stephen King's Pet Sematary, which was already adapted once before in 1989. This new adaptation sticks close to the story in the book, about a family that moves to a rural home where they discover a "Pet Sematary" nearby. After the family cat is killed, they bury it in the Pet Sematary and then very weird things start to happen. Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz star, with John Lithgow, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Hugo Lavoie, Jeté Laurence, and Obssa Ahmed. I'm actually curious about this film. It doesn't need to be remade, but maybe it will turn out good. And from this first look, it seems there is some promise for this fresh take on the freaky small town horror story. That cat is the scariest part.
- 10/10/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Sometimes dead is better.” Like worms wriggling in the soil of a freshly dug grave, those words first burrowed into the psyches of horror fans back in 1983 with the publication of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary—arguably his most unnerving work put to print (it certainly has my vote). Those same four words dug deeper into viewers’ brains in 1989 when the first Pet Sematary film burned an indelible mark on the big screen. Now, nearly three decades after Zelda’s creepy cackle haunted our nightmares, Paramount Pictures is taking us back to the place where the ground is sour with the trailer for new Pet Sematary film. Over the summer, Daily Dead was invited to join a group of journalists on the set of Pet Sematary in the Québec countryside—you could call it “Jud Crandall country”—outside of Montreal, where we witnessed the craft and care that goes into...
- 10/10/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Bloody Disgusting has hi-res first shots from Paramount Pictures’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, with Starry Eyes duo Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch in the director’s chairs. The photos reveal our first look at John Lithgow taking over the role of Jud Crandall, of course, played in the original film adaptation by the late Fred Gwynne. Three-year-old twins Hugo Lavoie and Lucas Lavoie play Gage […]...
- 10/4/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Just in time for us all to relearn how to properly spell Pet Sematary, another onscreen adaptation of the Stephen King classic has been given the green light. Variety reported back in October that Paramount is moving forward with a reboot of the 1989 film (based on King's 1983 horror novel) with directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer at the helm.
The duo previously directed the gory, moody indie horror movie Starry Eyes in 2014, so capturing the relentlessly creepy vibe of Pet Sematary should be right up their alley. The story follows a family who moves into a new home that just so happens to be next to a small woodland cemetery for pets, which allows the creatures buried there to come back from the dead. When tragedy strikes, the family pushes the powers of the cemetery to its extreme. So far the cast includes Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz as Louis and Rachel Creed,...
The duo previously directed the gory, moody indie horror movie Starry Eyes in 2014, so capturing the relentlessly creepy vibe of Pet Sematary should be right up their alley. The story follows a family who moves into a new home that just so happens to be next to a small woodland cemetery for pets, which allows the creatures buried there to come back from the dead. When tragedy strikes, the family pushes the powers of the cemetery to its extreme. So far the cast includes Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz as Louis and Rachel Creed,...
- 6/25/2018
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
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